This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure and novel plant-level data on industrial robot imports ...

Robots perform at a fair in a park on the second day of the Lunar New Year of the Horse in Beijing on February 18, 2026. On Feb. 16, hundreds of millions of households watched as humanoid robots from ...

The rivalry between Hyundai Motor Co. and Tesla is intensifying amid the rise of humanoid robots. Hyundai’s ownership of Boston Dynamics has positioned it as a leader in the field of robotics, as it ...